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Created: Dec 06, 2007
Updated: Sep 26, 2009
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The River Exchange is a non-profit organization located in Dunsmuir, California that promotes healthy watersheds in Siskiyou County through stewardship, restoration, education, and community involvement.
We began as a project of the City of Dunsmuir in 1996, created in the aftermath of the disastrous Cantara Loop railroad spill that destroyed all plant and animal life along a thirty-six mile stretch of the Upper Sacramento. Since that time we have grown into an independent and self-sustaining organization. Along the way, we have taught thousands of schoolchildren about the importance of rivers, and how to be good stewards of their watersheds.
We have also organized dozens of community events around watershed stewardship, participated in numerous restoration projects throughout the region, and created partnerships with federal, state and local agencies, other conservation groups, and the business community.
Each year the River Exchange hosts the Great River Clean-up in the fall, and the River Celebration! in late spring. We are currently hosting a series of informational gatherings on watershed sustainability, and are also working with numerous stakeholders on a watershed assessment of the Upper Sacramento River region. In the McCloud River watershed, we are undertaking the second level of an assessment which will involve uncapping numerous springs that were filled in during the height of the logging era.
We have designed and are implementing two riparian restoration projects on the Upper Sacramento River - one at Hedge Creek Falls and the second at Upper Soda Springs - both in the City of Dunsmuir. We are also participating in a major restoration effort on the Trout Creek tributary of the McCloud River in the McCloud Flats.
Our members live throughout California and in other parts of the country. They share the common desire to see the spectacular rivers and watersheds of far northern California remain healthy and productive, and to be sustained for future generations to enjoy.
We began as a project of the City of Dunsmuir in 1996, created in the aftermath of the disastrous Cantara Loop railroad spill that destroyed all plant and animal life along a thirty-six mile stretch of the Upper Sacramento. Since that time we have grown into an independent and self-sustaining organization. Along the way, we have taught thousands of schoolchildren about the importance of rivers, and how to be good stewards of their watersheds.
We have also organized dozens of community events around watershed stewardship, participated in numerous restoration projects throughout the region, and created partnerships with federal, state and local agencies, other conservation groups, and the business community.
Each year the River Exchange hosts the Great River Clean-up in the fall, and the River Celebration! in late spring. We are currently hosting a series of informational gatherings on watershed sustainability, and are also working with numerous stakeholders on a watershed assessment of the Upper Sacramento River region. In the McCloud River watershed, we are undertaking the second level of an assessment which will involve uncapping numerous springs that were filled in during the height of the logging era.
We have designed and are implementing two riparian restoration projects on the Upper Sacramento River - one at Hedge Creek Falls and the second at Upper Soda Springs - both in the City of Dunsmuir. We are also participating in a major restoration effort on the Trout Creek tributary of the McCloud River in the McCloud Flats.
Our members live throughout California and in other parts of the country. They share the common desire to see the spectacular rivers and watersheds of far northern California remain healthy and productive, and to be sustained for future generations to enjoy.
